Are we fundamentally going to embrace the idea that we are a multiracial democracy. The history of the country suggests that when we are faced with that question we will double down on violence. That White America will choose violence to defend its way of life. … That they will in fact exact a certain kind of violence to defend that view. … America is always talking about changing but it never changes. … It makes no sense that we would actually go back to the politics that produced Trumpism in the first place.
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We can’t allow these folks to disentangle Trumpism from the Republican party. … We can’ allow them to disentangle these two things. They are one in the same. So what are you asking for when you talk about reaching across the isle? What are you asking us to do when you talk about reaching across the isle in unity.

We won’t do that again. That’s not going to happen this time. … We need to get beyond these narrow labels. We need to get to transformational government. We need to get beyond big government and small government and smart government and get to transformational government. … We need to understand what defund the police means. Budget your values. Budget your values. That’s what it means at the heart of it. Why are you spending 60 -70 percent of your municipal budget on policing when you have education, social services and the like.

Stop lying. Stop lying. … today begins the hard work. … We have to break the political frame that got us into this political mess in the first place.

Eddie Glaude, Princeton University

The original article he wrote, Don’t Let the Loud Bigots Distract You. America’s Real Problem With Race Cuts Far Deeper is here.
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